Ilinden, Blagoevgrad Province

Ilinden (Bulgarian: Илинден [iˈlindɛn]) is a village in Hadzhidimovo Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria.

The climate is transitional Mediterranean with mountain influence with summer minimum and winter maximum of rainfall.

According to professor Ivan Duridanov, the settlement name Libyahovo with an earlier form, Lyubyahovo, comes from the personal name Lyubyah.

In the nineteenth century, Libyahovo was a large village with a predominant Bulgarian population, belonging to the Nevrokop kaza of the Seres sanjak.

[4] In the Ethnography of the Villanets of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki, published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the male population of 1873, Lubiahovo is cited as a village with 253 households and 850 Bulgarians.

[5] In 1889, Stefan Verkovic (Topographical-Ethnographic Outline of Macedonia) notes Libyahovo as a village with 245 Bulgarian houses.

[6] In 1891 Vasil Kanchov visited Nevrokopsko and left interesting travel notes for Libyahovo.